Comments on: The Weird Week in Review

By: Casey

Casey — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 01:19:00 +0000

Well, as for the cat names, I have a female cat named Oscar. I don’t see anything wrong with it. She carries it well.

By: Rich

Rich — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 01:14:00 +0000

If I’m an actor onstage who’s supposewd to slit my own throat with dummy knife, you’d better believe I’m going to surreptitiously run my thumb over it first.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000

My first thought when I read about the unfortunate actor was to wonder if it was a production of Macbeth. According to legend, real daggers were substituted accidentally for fake ones in the play’s very first performance. Similar incidents were said to have taken place on numerous occasions afterward.

By: Heather Dawn

Heather Dawn — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:21:00 +0000

I think Edgar is a fine name for a cat…a boy cat. The injured cat though, is a female cat named Edgar. That’s a little odd to me.

By: Diana

Diana — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:58:00 +0000

Also… I have a cat named Edgar, too! People always make fun of me, so it’s nice to know that I’m not the only one.

By: Diana

Diana — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:48:00 +0000

The switched knife scenario is the basis for a murder in Caroline Graham’s novel Death of a Hollow Man, which became part of the Midsommer Murders series.

And I second the idea of a Murder She Wrote post/quiz!

By: Erin

Erin — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:33:00 +0000

I’m probably the only dork that remembers this, but wasn’t there a Murder She Wrote where a ballerina died on stage because she touched some poisin tipped needles on a prop skull? Obviously not the same thing, but that’s what the knife thing made me think of. Is that weird? And what am I going to do with all this Murder She Wrote knowledge? Can we get a “13 things you never knew about Murder She Wrote” post?

By: beth

beth — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:27:00 +0000

That man slitting his own throat on stage is almost exactly what happened on Monk a few seasons ago when on the show an actress supposedly stabbed an actor with a real knife instead of the fake.